Rev. Celeste and Dr. Maisha Hazzard discuss the commonality of peoples across the world, heart coherence, brain waves and different levels of consciousness and expanding into our possibilities. Rev. Celeste inquires about Dr. Maisha’s parental lineage in their spirituality and guidance and we find out all kinds of wonderful historical events which include the civil rights movement, Vodun and more!
· Dr. Maisha recalls debating with (Rev.) O.C. Smith about how Science of Mind can be the art of the heart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._C._Smith)
· Dr. Maisha references Heart Math and how we can expand in our hearts (https://www.heartmath.com/)
· Dr. Maisha discusses the various levels of consciousness and how transformative gamma, in particular, can be - as seen in the experience of monks (https://braintap.com/study-of-meditation-and-brain-waves-in-buddhist-monks-confounds-wisconsin-researchers/)
· In their discussion about neuroscience and metaphysics, Dr. Maisha shares the story of the healing of a master chess player/former incarcerated person by helping him access and utilize his heart coherence (https://healthy-heart-meditation.com/cardiac-coherence/)
· As Dr. Maisha thinks about her mother, she shares how their civil rights activities taught them nonviolent direct action as Bayard Rustin https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/rustin-bayard-1910-1987/) directed them to do (https://www.britannica.com/topic/satyagraha-philosophy), and how her mother used soul force on a Philadelphia bus when racist activity was going on and her mother ended it.
· Dr. Maisha shares her lineage including her Haitian grandfather and how her minister father was holding vigil while they were on that bus, and how vodun (https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/vodun-voodoo-vaudun) was also a factor in protecting them from having their house blown up by the Ku Klux Klan in Little Rock, Arkansas.
· Dr. Maisha shares that her father's classmate from Sierra Leone was son of the high priest and was in training to become a high priest. The young man later communicated with her father psychically from the other side of the world in the Mindi language (which her father did not speak) but the communication was still clear (http://www.sorosoro.org/en/mindi-languages/
· Dr. Maisha talks about her father's grandmother's people - the Lenape and their spiritual practices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenape) that they used for protection.
For more information about Dr. Maisha, go to Khepra-Institute.org
Find Dr. Maisha's podcast - look for: Spiritual Sanity
Poem: “I Am Your Vessel“ (https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Love-Celeste-Frazier-ebook/dp/B071XJT1Q2/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keyword)
